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Social Capital and Its Measurement
Social Capital and Its Measurement
Tuesday, 17 July 2018: 08:30-10:20
Location: 201B (MTCC NORTH BUILDING)
RC55 Social Indicators (host committee) Language: English
Social capital has been a popular concept in social sciences for several decades. However, its conceptualization and measurement have lacked consistency across studies. For instance, some researchers emphasize the network-basedness of social capital. In accordance with this idea, social capital is measured by interpersonal network generators at the individual level or by count of membership in associations at the organizational level. Others, however, equate social capital with trust (in particular, generalized trust or out-group trust) or norms of reciprocity. These varying notions and conceptualization of social capital have not facilitated an accumulative growth of the empirical research including both within-country and cross-national comparative studies. A certain degree of agreement in the community of social sciences concerning how to measure social capital is imperative for further development of the literature. Therefore, this session seeks to present either theoretical discussions on how to measure social capital or empirical studies that deal with the measurement of social capital.
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